Thorny_Insight
@Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
Surely you can get rid of that ‘parasite’ in the first few months instead of waiting for the last minute? I don’t see how drawing the line at, say 12 weeks now somehow takes away a person’s bodily autonomy.
Speaking of a red herring, a comparison to a forced kidney donation is completely irrelevant here.
- Comment on How do you join a different instance? 2 months ago:
You go to lemm.ee, feddit.uk, lemmy.ca or what ever instance you wish to join and create an account there. Just like you went to lemmy.world and joined that one.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
Possibly yes but that doesn’t help if one is morbidly afraid of approaching women for example.
However my point was that it’s a bit pointless to ask why would someone become something when by definition it’s involuntary. It’s like asking why would anyone be under 6ft tall.
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- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
Incel = involuntary celibate
You become one by not being able to find a life partner or even a one night stand. Not something I’d really blame the individual for.
- Comment on How the fuck do you meet new people? 2 months ago:
I started my own business which involves going into people’s homes and fixing shit. I’m meeting a ton of new people nowdays, granted most of them are either elderly or single older women / moms.
- Comment on A.I. groks 66%-76% faster with data augmentation strategies. 2 months ago:
Well, I’m on Lemmy myself, so perhaps that’s some sort of an indication of where I prefer to discuss thing with people in general, not just about AI. My list of blocked users is rather vast though, so a big part of the loudest haters are being filtered out from my feed. That surely contributes to the better experience here - or atleast less bad.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Well I’d say that for a person to be evil they’d need to be doing evil things with the sole intention of causing harm with nothing good coming out of it. Perhaps a good caricature of an evil person would be someone wanting to destroy the world including themselves. Admittedly such people absolutely does exists so maybe that debunks my own claim.
However if someone draws joy from causing harm to others I wouldn’t still call it evil but more like extreme disregard; you don’t care how others feel, only how it makes you feel. This is why I don’t think billionaires abusing the system for their own benefit makes them evil because causing harm is a byproduct of their selfish goals but not the intention of them. Similarly someone like Hitler wasn’t evil either because causing suffering to the jews was not the reason he set up the death camps but rather a way to achieve his other goals.
- Comment on A.I. groks 66%-76% faster with data augmentation strategies. 2 months ago:
No, but probably the dedicated subreddit
- Comment on A.I. groks 66%-76% faster with data augmentation strategies. 2 months ago:
I couldn’t think of a worse platform to try and discuss this topic than Lemmy. The consensus here is essentially that big companies = bad, AI companies = big, and thus AI = bad.
- Comment on A.I. groks 66%-76% faster with data augmentation strategies. 2 months ago:
…is how AI haters redefine terms and move the goalposts to fight their cognitive dissonance.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Well first of all, I don’t personally think evil even exists.
Secondly, I don’t think these people are any more or less “evil” than the rest of us. They just operate on a much larger scale that affects many more people. If any of us normal folk would be put under equivalent level of scrutiny as these guys with journalists combing thru our every social media post and paparazzis following us around combined with the intention to dig up dirt and contribute to the negative narrative that sells better than a positive one, we’d all look like them. Most people don’t like Gates, Musk or Zuck because that’s the conclusion they’ve independently arrived at. It’s how they’ve been told to think by the media.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
To be honest I’d feel stupid saying that alout at anyone. They’re not called that in my native language - I think.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Both spoons are the same size. Different size ones wouldn’t fit together like that.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
It only sounds bad to the fringest of the fringe that’s deceivingly loud on twitter. Good luck trying to find even one real person thinking those terms should be changed. This kind of stuff is why people vote for Trump.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Advertisements are for a large part about brand recognization. Even if you’re not going to buy the product, the fact that you remember the brand means the ad has worked.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
By using Lemmy we’re already filtering out certain people and opinions. I personally think that the more control we have over what we see, the better. I don’t think it’s opposing views people want to filter out. It’s the ones having those views and being dicks about it.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 2 months ago:
My 10 year old TV which I watch 10 year old TV-series via HDMI from? I don’t think so.
Tomorrow there’s going to be article about how my car spies on me as if that’s not 15 years old too. Or something about my office job that I don’t have.
I’m becoming irrelevant. Not the target audience for anything.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Unavoidably so but then again, going sideways because of a downvote is just more data on who you might want to block.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Echo chamber within echo chamber I guess.
It’s not the people whose opinions I disagree with who I usually block. It’s people making snide comments like this while fishing for upvotes. I’ll reserve my attention to the ones who have something to say rather than ones just wanting to make noise.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
If this mean we’d be able to see who has up- / downvoted a comment on our own and possibly on other people’s posts then I’m all for it. This would be highly useful at filtering out the people here I want nothing to do with.
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 months ago:
Musk really fucked everything up, did he?
Other than no longer being able to use an app to access twitter, I haven’t noticed anything else changing for the worse. They even made the “media” tab into grid rather than list which was a welcome update.
- Comment on Fixing battery bank usb ports 2 months ago:
I’ve got a similar one that I managed to open up, but the USB port is soldered in
- Comment on Twitter 2 months ago:
Good demonstration of how the alternatives are no better
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 2 months ago:
The first time I saw text written by GPT it all seemed alright at first glance but once you started to actually read it was immediately obvious it had no idea what it was talking about. It was grammatically correct nonsense.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’m glad phones weren’t banned when I was still in school but it would’ve been better for me if they were. I think this is one of those things where we need an authority to prevent us from doing something that’s bad for us because we’re not going to do it ourselves. It’s equivalent to mom telling you to eat your vegetables.
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 2 months ago:
Few years ago the output of GPT was complete gibberish and few years before that even producing such gibberish would’ve been impressive.
It doesn’t take anyone’s job untill it does.
- Comment on Harris campaign tweaks Walz biography amid scrutiny of military credentials 3 months ago:
I joined this community hoping for some variety to the lefts constant pissing on the right but what I got in return in the exact same thing directed at the opposite side. Where’s the reasonable moderates at that focus on ideas and events, not people?
- Comment on Snowflake is such a weird insult as it seems to imply it's best to just be like everyone else 3 months ago:
The way I think about it is that we’re all “snowflakes”. No two people are exactly the same. So while one can correctly claim to be unique that also applies to everyone else. It’s not like everyone else is the same but you’re unique. Also, being unique doesn’t automatically mean someone is better than others - one can also be uniquely bad.
- Comment on Snowflake is such a weird insult as it seems to imply it's best to just be like everyone else 3 months ago:
I haven’t claimed it doesn’t imply fragility too. Just that the uniqueness is the primary meaning of it - thus the term snowflake. “I’m unique and thus deserving of special treatment”
If it was primarily about fragility then we’d probably be using some other term as that is not generally the first feature that comes to mind about snowflakes.